Is there a word for

[jnuts1]

none of you have been in the grind unless you have had solitary, one armed, woman getting down.....

also it was a great gig. we played our hearts out for her and she made the night

 

[jnuts1]

Empties the room of musicians, perhaps. But our totally un-hip crowd still gets up for it.

that's because musicians suck at picking tunes for their band.
"no way man, wagon wheel is a horrible song and i hate playing it. what we should really play that one track from Genesis' firth of fifth. it will blow the audience away!!!" no it won't

 

[Chrisenbacker69]

Saturday Night In Nebraska?

 

[dalkowski]

My career in Boston rock.

 

[39-Bassist]

UGH!

 

[sedan_dad]

Paying your Dues.

 

[bassliner50]

Crickets.

 

[robd]

Exposure

 

[BAG]

It's when the band has a case of "MSS" or "Mustang Sally Syndrome", the song that usually empties a room.

Can't say I've ever seen Mustang Sally empty a room.... on the contrary, it usually helps fill a dance floor. The same with Wagon Wheel, Sweet Home Alabama and many other songs that "cool" musicians love to hate.

 

[RoaDan]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

If not, there should be.

Please share or make up a word for it.

Paid rehearsal... Hopefully! Otherwise the only word I can come up with is... embarrassing...

 

[1bassplayinfool]

Exposure

 

[wraub]

I like this better than the English version.

Das Geräusch einer klatschenden Hand.

 

[Hot Rats]

I have always known the scenario you describe as " Paid Rehearsal"

 

[Inky13]

Performance Artist.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

It's called practice.

We played a gig as a 4-piece band, and there were 3 other people at the bar total (sound guy, bartender, and the singer's gf). Technically zero people in the audience.

It's also called rock n' roll

 

[MuttThud]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

If not, there should be.

Please share or make up a word for it.

“Normal for Big Bands”?

Played in a 26-piece proper 40s-style big band once. We took up a bunch of space wherever we went. One gig... five people in the audience. We literally had double that turning up randomly to listen to our rehearsals.

My blues band was another. 13 of us, two up front, big horn section, keys, two guitars, two BV singers... big, loud and fun. Except every now and then (midweek, heavy rain, somewhere miles from anywhere and a bit sh*t) absolutely nobody turned up. Empty room. Not even the barman. We were paid a share of the door back then and I was trying to make a living from playing. Made me wonder where my life was going.

So my one word would be... “heartsink”. But then, next night, different place, totally different crowd... queuing out the door. Just how this stuff rolls sometimes.

 

[pbass2]

Many of my "experimental" projects over the years.

One of them had 10 band members up there, but most...well, not so many...

 

[Michedelic]

Showbiz

 

[wraub]

1. 
   
   Playdenfreude

 

[Joebarnes]

"Paid rehearsel'

You're getting paid?